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3 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Gemma Gracewood |Jeanne Dielman
If you had any doubt that the Talking Heads were foundational in the artistry of Mike Mills, look no further than his 2016 feature 20th Century Women. From the ‘Don’t Worry About the Government’ needle drop in the film’s opening to the Talking Heads: 77 shirt that leading character Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), who was based on Mills, wears and is subsequently beaten up for (a shirt Mills actually owns), the director’s appreciation of the band is all over his work.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Gemma Gracewood |Mitchell Beaupre
Joe Wright wasn’t intending to create one of the most obsessed-over period pictures of the 21st century. He tells us he merely wanted to be “at the service of Jane Austen and her story.” So how did a close-up of Matthew Macfadyen’s fingers become so distractingly important as to pack out theaters twenty years later?
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino
The Josh Hartnett renaissance is in full swing, and we’re all the better for it. The past few years have seen a major surge for the star who broke out at the turn of the century across horror hits (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Faculty), emotionally packed teen dramas (The Virgin Suicides, O) and major blockbusters (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down).
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Matt Goldberg
So goes the iconic tagline for 2005’s equally iconic House of Wax, a watershed moment in the grunge horror era of early 21st century Hollywood cinema. While other films of this wave have seen their stocks falter as they age, Jaume Collet-Serra’s loose remake of André de Toth’s 1953 Vincent Price-starring chiller about a murderer who encases his victims in wax sculptures has only grown in stature.
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2 months ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Katie Rife |Dominic Corry
When a director is responsible for what Letterboxd members describe as “single-handedly the best action movie I [have] ever seen,” you make sure to stand to attention whenever they’ve got a new release coming. After spending some time in the world of television with Gangs of London, Welsh action maestro Gareth Evans (The Raid, The Raid 2) is back to feature filmmaking.
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2 months ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino |Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy can do it all. Born in Manhattan to an award-winning playwright father and a sculptor-writer mother, for many years he pursued a career as a musician before abandoning tunes when he discovered his knack for screenwriting. Gilroy saw his work on screen for the first time at the age of 36 with 1992’s ice-skating rom-com The Cutting Edge, following it up with a stunning run of success from aching dramas (Dolores Claiborne) to operatic thrillers (The Devil’s Advocate).
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Dominic Corry |Shayna Maci Warner
Angela Robinson made her spy spoof gay rom-com D.E.B.S. the year after Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle hit theaters. As Roger Ebert noted in his 1.5-star review, Robinson’s lesbian spin on hot girls with guns felt like a direct response to that revitalized franchise. But D.E.B.S. wasn’t just a queering of the recent Charlie’s Angels films—or other new female action franchises like Lara Croft and Resident Evil—it was a satire.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Ella Kemp
From the beginning of his career, even as far back as his 1981 short film Peep Show, Atom Egoyan has been interested in the act of watching. What observation of others tells us about them, but just as much so what it says about ourselves. Rarely has that theme been more potent than in Exotica, released 30 years ago and standing strong as the director’s highest-rated film on Letterboxd.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino |Garry White |Wes Anderson
“This week, our community lost a giant,” Morgan Freeman said at the 97th Academy Awards, speaking to the passing of his former co-star and “dear friend” Gene Hackman. “Like everyone who has ever shared a scene with him,” the actor continued, “I learned he was a generous performer, and a man whose gifts elevated everyone’s work.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
letterboxd.com | David Lynch |Mark Frost |Mia Lee Vicino |Mitchell Beaupre
“In heaven, everything is fine.” In David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, the Lady in the Radiator sings these words. In 2025, at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, California, a piece of cardboard at the foot of the Big Boy statue spells them out in capital letters. It’s one amongst hundreds of other offerings for the late filmmaker, who dined here “for seven years every day at 2:30” and who passed away January 15—five days before what would have been his 79th birthday.
